19 March. The newly announced The Avengers series from Big Finish will feature Julian Wadham as John Steed; Mrs. Peel has yet to be cast. The series has an interesting comic connection: the stories will be based on the stories that appeared in Diana in 1966-67. Big Finish will release two volumes in April and November 2016 and a graphic novel collection of the comic strip, also in November 2016.

19 March. Dredd 2 is not going to happen according to writer/director of the Dredd movie, Alex Garland.

18 March. Alan Moore's novel Jerusalem has found an American publisher in Liveright & Co., an imprint of W. W. Norton. The UK edition will be published by Knockabout Comics in 2016.

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Sunday, April 29, 2007

Jane Gross

Another Robin Annual author, Jane Gross contributed to no.7 (1959). I can find nothing else about her beyond the fact that she also wrote a book for Hulton Press under their 'Robin Books' banner. Seems odd that an unknown would be supplying a novel to Hulton as all the other Hulton comics tie-ins related to strips appearing regularly in the weeklies. The two stars of the book, a young girl and her black cat, appeared in two strips in the Annual released the year following. Perhaps there was an intention to run the characters regularly as a strip but, for whatever reason, it didn't work out.

The artwork was by Paddie Spratley... and you can readallvery little about her below.

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